Tips for Writing Effective Perl Scripts CPAN Modules: Utilize the Comprehensive Perl Archive Network (CPAN) to extend Perl's functionality. Debugging: Use Perl’s built-in debugging tool with perl -d ...

The Linux expect command takes script writing to an entirely new level. Instead of automating processes, it automates running and responding to other scripts.

Wrap-up Using pipes, aliases and scripts can make the Linux command line easier to use and more powerful.

I often profess that Linux can be used without the command line, but at some point, you might want to learn it anyway. When you do, consider these commands.

We often write quick bash scripts and judging by the comments, half of us use bash or a similar shell to pop out quick, useful scripts, and half of us think that’s an abomination, and you should ...

More than just writing help scripts, here documents are useful any time that you want to enter multiple lines and have them piped to a command. We use them most often from the shell directly.

There are hundreds of applications for OS X that place information in the menu bar. Usually, I can find one that almost does what I want, but not quite. Thankfully I found BitBar, which is an ...